LONDON (AA) – The first British soldiers from a deployment of 200 arrived Friday to reinforce NATO’s Kosovo Force (KFOR). “The deployment is based on a request by NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe and comes after the violent attack on Kosovo Police on 24 September and increased tensions in the region,” said a Defense Min...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Commission confirmed Monday that the EU stands ready to impose sanctions on Serbia over the attacks in northern Kosovo if the bloc’s member states find enough evidence. “The European Union stands ready to assess measures vis-a-vis Serbia if member states decided that they have enough information, enough facts...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Kosovo police on Monday seized a huge quantity of heavy weapons and ammunition from a village in the country’s north, which had seen clashes between law enforcement and armed ethnic Serbs since Sunday. The police later displayed heavy weapons, vehicles, and ammunition seized during the day-long clashes with the armed Se...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Police in Montenegro arrested a former Serbian soldier Monday who had been sought by the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) through the Interpol on the grounds that he committed war crimes during the Kosovo conflict. Law enforcement officials said the 61-year-old man was apprehended af...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Three of the armed ethnic Serbs who attacked police in northern Kosovo on Sunday morning have been killed and several others injured have been detained, Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti said on Sunday. “What we have learned so far, as we thought before, is that it is a professional terrorist/criminal structure [...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Kosovo has slammed Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s speech to the UN General Assembly and claimed it was an attempt to distort history. ”I strongly condemn and reject entirely as untruths and attempt to distort history the statements concerning the Republic of Kosovo made by the president of Serbia...
